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Lynn Blasts White House Meetings with Bible Society President

By Sarah Posner

…ng of the country.” Lynn: I’dd like to save Dubois and Vest some time. The United States was not founded on the Bible. It was not founded on the Koran. It was not founded on the Bhagavad Gita. It was not founded on any holy book. If you read the Constitution and then the Bible you will see major differences. In the Bible there is no Bill of Rights, no representative democracy, no equal branches of government with “checks and balances” and no “We t…

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…percent thought so back in 1982. The trend among Christian churches in the United States has also been toward acceptance. The United Church of Christ, on July 4, 2005, became the only mainline denomination to affirm its support for marriage equality. Other denominations, like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), have moved to remove bans on the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers. The Presbyterian Church (USA), remains on the ver…

Church-State Separation Activists Urge Questioning of Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…hether they are pregnant or HIV-positive,” according to the SCA. Americans United notes that Kagan urged then-Vice President Al Gore’s staff not to mention the bill “because this law and a follow-on bill in Congress had sparked conflict between religious liberty advocates and the LGBT community;” During her confirmation hearings to become Solicitor General, Kagan described a memo she wrote as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h in condemning the death penalty in all circumstances,” Nauert said. “The United States unequivocally condemns the application of the death penalty for conduct such as homosexuality, blasphemy, adultery, and apostasy. We do not consider such conduct appropriate for criminalization.” OutRight Action International’s Jessica Stern supported this explanation: “There’s been some misreporting and misconceptions,” Stern told NBC News. “The U.S. always o…

More Pressure on Obama to Fix His Religious Freedom Legacy

By Sarah Posner

…s I reported in April,the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United, has called Obama’s refusal to reverse the memo “the deepest stain on the civil rights position of the Obama administration.” Church-state separation and religious liberties advocates have said that because the Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to take any action to amend RFRA post-Hobby Lobby, reversing the World Vision Memo is one action in Obama’s control…

Crossing Denominational Lines to Reprimand “Freaky Fraus”

By Kathryn Joyce

…ated Church of the Covenant. They do not reflect the heart and mind of our United Church of Christ whose premise is ‘that all may be one.’ Those of us who truly value the unity of all Christians and treasure our ecumenical relationships with you as Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ are grieved.” The Confessing Movement UCC pastor also said that his movement is also [sic] “fully aware that this event was not motivated by a sincere desire to h…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ather than saying something, no matter our religion. Costa Rica: Activists Promote Marriage Equality Bill Opposed by Evangelical Lawmakers Equality activists are promoting new marriage equality legislation, which is backed by deputies from different parties, though one of the lawyers supporting the bill acknowledged that it might be blocked by evangelical lawmakers who have to date prevented other attempts. Tunisia: Court Jails Students on Sodomy…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nti-LGBT bigotry compromising the safety and freedoms of many Indonesians. United Kingdom: Couple Threatens To Sue Church School For Accommodating Trans Child A Christian couple is preparing to sue a Church of England elementary school that is permitting a transgender six-year-old to being attending class in a dress. The couple said that the school’s policy confused their six-year-old son and is “interfering with their religious freedom.” Serbia:…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…” playbook, and in particular, that of Perry’s fellow Texan and Christians United for Israel founder John Hagee. At Perry’s prayer rally, The Response, in Houston last month, Hagee spoke and brought a sizable contingent of congregants from his San Antonio church. Perry has prayed at Hagee’s church, and agreed with him that non-Christians are doomed to hell. The appeasement accusation is as old as Neville Chamberlain, and deployed with frequency by…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…rations “care too much about politics and not enough about profit.” In the United States, massive corporations like Target have a legal fiduciary duty to their boards of directors and shareholders. Every little decision a corporation makes is to the benefit of its bottom line, whether that’s selling rainbow towels or donating to anti-abortion candidates. Decisions like whom to advertise to are financial. “Woke capitalism” is merely capitalism that…